Subic Bay – Page 24 – Philippine-Sailor

Media Category: Subic Bay

This category encompass, the former Subic Bay Naval Base,-Naval Station,-Naval Air Station Cubi Point, the former Olongapo Naval Station,-the prewar Olongapo Town and the present Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SBFZ) under the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).

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Zg527, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. Small boat pier for the Fleet Officer’s Club. I’m familiar with that view, we are looking to the north end of Subic Bay and that is the two hills west of Subic Town proper.

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Zg526, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945.

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Zg525, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. Bajac Bajac Brldqe: Manila Road.

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Zg524, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. That certainly looks like the Kalaklan Point and Bridge area.

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Zg539, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. We know where Kalaklan Point is; on the map in this segment it is still spelled Calaclan Point. That tower is gone and is replaced by a new Navigation Light. ATC stands for Amphibious Training Center and I believe it was located between Baloy Long Beach to the Calapacuan Village […]

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Zg538, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. Grande Island, Battery Warwick! Battery Warwick is still there, the guns are gone, (2 Six Inch are left) that communication tower is gone now, but the Battery Warwick compound is fenced in, locked up and used for radar purpose for the Subic International Airport, the ex Cubi Point Naval Air […]

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Zg537, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. Grande Island! I don’t know what has happened to this building, but I believe it is on the north shore because I believe I know that peak, right and next to it.

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Zg536, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. Grande Island! Ex Fort Wint.

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Zg535, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. Grande Island! Once a coastal artillery emplacement, Grande Island become o Fleet Recreation Area for some 3000 daily of the men who served on cruisers, battleships, DD’s and DE’s.

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Zg534, NCB-115, Subic Bay 1945. The Fleet Officer’s Club. Across the bay on Bataan peninsula laid the Seventh Fleet Officers’ Club. About 20 of our men engaged in and directed its building by Filipino craftsmen. Work began in the middle of March to continue indefinitely. Native materials were used throughout. This is the Junior Officers’ […]